A wireless ADSL solution, the 3Com OfficeConnectADSL Wireless 108Mbps 11g Firewall Router, is now available to the local market through Annex Distribution. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
DataPro Group to acquire Orion Telecom
DataPro Group, a local supplier of voice, data and Internet services, is to acquire Orion Telecom in a R380m deal that aims to increase the scale, strategic position and market share of the combined group. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Mobility 2006: Cost is the key to cellphone banking
Just over 1 in 10 South Africans with bank accounts have ever used their cellphones for banking, according to research into cellphone banking released by World Wide Worx. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
International telecommunications operator, TelFree, has gone live in SA, and says that it will make an immediate impact on the local telecoms market by offering dramatically reduced call rates using a virtual VoIP network over a variety of sales channels. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
CISCO chooses ERP solution supplier
Cape Town Iron & Steel Works (CISCO), a wholly owned subsidiary of Murray & Roberts, recently chose Syspro ERP software, locally distributed by Impact Africa, an EOH company, as its preferred Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution supplier. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
iBurst welcomes good behaviour
Wireless broadband provider iBurst is encouraging the festive spirit this Christmas by giving away R500 shopping vouchers to iBurst subscribers who sign up for 24-month contracts on the G1, G3, G6 and G9 packages. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
JCSE CMMI programme kicks off
The Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE - www.jcse.org.za) at Wits University today launches its Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) pilot programme. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Safika Investments empowers Molapo Technology
Safika Investments has announced its involvement in another major empowerment deal with the acquisition of a 36% shareholding in Molapo Technology, a repair and service company in the telecommunications industry. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
iBurst and DataPro aim to make broadband more accessible
Nebula, an independent telecommunications consultancy, has recently concluded a Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) deal which distributes a portion of the company's equity ownership amongst employees. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Caxton gets connected with NXT
As the amount of mobile content available to South Africans rockets, the challenge facing providers is how to get the right content to the right user at the right time - however, distribution and marketing remains a problem. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Cognos, a business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) vendor, has launched a financial services performance solution designed to help retail banks drive greater branch profitability through more effective customer segment and product-level planning, analysis and reporting. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Sun International 'takes HR to a new level'
Sun International says that it is using business intelligence and data analytics software from QlikView SA to enable its HR managers to make informed business decisions, which affect the entire group, in record time. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Department of Housing 'improves performance, focuses on future IT path'
The Department of Housing has kicked off an enterprise storage project with IT services and solutions provider, Datacentrix, aiming to consolidate and upgrade its existing environment for increased flexibility and manageability. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
IBM says that it is enhancing its line of x86 servers with the introduction of four, quad-core IBM systems and a blade utilising the quad-core Intel Xeon 5300 processor. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Epson and Microsoft announce cross-license of their patent holdings
Mozilla: Firefox anti-phishing tool 'better than that of IE 7'
Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service (New York Bureau)
Mozilla fired a shot back at Microsoft in the browser war's latest battle this week, using a company-sponsored study to claim that the anti-phishing filter in Firefox 2 more accurately flags potential phishing attacks than the one in Internet Explorer 7. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
PDA shipments grew by 32% in Q3 2006 - Gartner
Driven by rapid growth in cellular PDAs, worldwide PDA shipments totalled 4,5m units in the third quarter of 2006, a 31,9% increase from the third quarter of 2005, according to Gartner. The average selling price (ASP) of PDAs in the third quarter of 2006 declined by 13% from the same period last year to $351. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Motorola to acquire Good Technology
Motorola and Good Technology have signed a definitive agreement under which Motorola will acquire privately held Good Technology, a supplier of enterprise mobile computing software and services. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
CFCU selects SAS to combat money laundering
Coastal Federal Credit Union (CFCU) has selected SAS Money Laundering Detection to help fortify its anti-money laundering (AML) programme and adhere to the regulations of the US Patriot Act. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
EMC launches latest version of Rainfinity
EMC has announced version 7.0 of the Rainfinity global file virtualisation solution, aiming to extend EMC's capabilities in file virtualisation and management to support enterprise archiving from heterogeneous file and network attached storage (NAS) systems to the EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) platform. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Microsoft to add 802.1x support to NAP client for XP
John Fontana, Network World (US)
Microsoft has confirmed that it will add to Windows XP an 802.1x client for its Network Access Protection security infrastructure, according to the manager working on the technology. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Heathrow Express gets Wi-Fi
PC Advisor staff, PC Advisor (UK)
Wi-Fi access is pretty much a given at UK airport lounges, but T-Mobile plans to encourage users to log-on before they check in, by enabling hotspot access on all Heathrow Express trains. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Avaya acquires Traverse Networks
Avaya, a global provider of business communications applications, systems and services, has acquired Traverse Networks, a privately held developer of enterprise mobility solutions for unified communications. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Oracle launches Lean Leaders' Circle
Oracle, in collaboration with Cardiff Business School's Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC), has announced the launch of the Oracle Lean Leaders' Circle, a European network formed to explore the opportunities, drivers and challenges of aligning IT and lean enterprise management methodologies. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
NAHCO uses APC
Nigeria Aviation Handling Company, (NAHCO) one of the three agencies involved in ground handling for airlines operations in Nigeria and the nation's airports has upgraded its power protection system by acquiring an American Power Conversion (APC) 16KVA Syrmmetra LX Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft partner to help webmasters
Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service (Miami Bureau)
Strange bedfellows Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have partnered to simplify how webmasters and online publishers submit their sites' content for indexing in the companies' search engines. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Symantec Phish Report Network opens to consumers worldwide
Symantec has announced the opening of the Symantec Phish Report Network, which aims to allow member companies to contribute and receive fraudulent Web site addresses that they can use in their anti-phishing solutions to help to protect users from online fraud. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Supply Chain Management 9.0 and PeopleSoft Enterprise Supplier Relationship Management 9.0. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Many people now use VoIP to make low-cost international calls from home using their computer. However, business managers have been much more reluctant to take advantage of this medium. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Gigabyte engineers 80nm graphic accelerator
For those not initiated into the world of techno-jargon, an 80nm graphic accelerator card sounds as exciting as watching eight hours of Star Trek reruns from the early 90s. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Intel says that it has kicked off the computer industry's multi-core PC era by delivering four computing 'brains' inside a single microprocessor. This is as a result of the introduction of the Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 and Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor families, Intel adds. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Netgear WiFi Skype phone now available
Duxbury Networks has announced the local release of Netgear's SPH101 WiFi Skype Phone, which is designed to allow for use of the Skype Internet Telephony service in a dedicated device. The white handset is no bigger than a cellphone and sports excellent battery life, the company says. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
PartnerNet 2007 'enhances business value of working with Novell'
Novell has unveiled enhancements to its PartnerNet programme designed to make it easier, more strategic, and more profitable for partners to work with Novell. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Juniper Networks launches UAC 2.0
Juniper Networks has launched the Unified Access Control (UAC) 2.0 solution, aiming to help enterprises more effectively manage user access to critical business assets from a wide range of network endpoints. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Tarsus announces local availability of Acer Core 2 Duo Notebooks
Tarsus Technologies has announced the local availability of Acer's range of Core 2 Duo notebooks, a portfolio of notebooks based on the latest processor and chipset pair from Intel. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Dell expands business technology portfolio
Dell says that it has expanded its end-to-end solutions for SMEs in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) with the introduction of two OptiPlex desktop computers - designed to provide increased technology choice and energy efficiency that transforms IT operations into competitive advantages. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
'Catch fast-moving scenes with LG Plasma TV'
LG Electronics (LG), a global player in the plasma and LCD TV market, has launched its 50-inch HD-ready plasma TV. According to LG, the plasma TV (model 50PC1R) has an original multifunction, which has already attracted many consumers who wanted to buy a new TV for the Soccer World Cup. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Cisco announces TelePresence
Cisco has announced the Cisco TelePresence Meeting solution, a category of products designed to create live, 'face-to-face' meeting experiences over an Internet Protocol (IP) network, and to empower users to interact and collaborate in ways in which they could not before. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
PornPass Manager infects computers with spyware
If you are in the habit of visiting sleazy Web sites, apply caution! Whilst you surf in porn waters, you may be caught by a nasty spyware installer named 'PornPass Manager', which is very difficult to completely eliminate from your computer, once the machine is infected. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
TelePassport 'takes the sting out of MNP'
In the wake of the launch of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) on Friday, with predictions of high porting rates that will significantly erode least cost routing savings, least cost routing (LCR) provider TelePassport has unveiled a managed LCR service that aims to guarantee complete coverage of number portability. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Adcorp selects Steelhead appliances
Adcorp Holdings has selected and deployed Riverbed's Steelhead appliances within its wide area network infrastructure. Rapid Technologies, a technology partner of Riverbed, has been selected to design, supply, deploy and maintain the Riverbed Steelhead infrastructure on behalf of Adcorp Holdings. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
hTc announces Internet-friendly Smartphone
hTc has announced the S310, said to be an easy-to-use and Internet-friendly Smartphone. The quad-band hTc S310, available from hTc's African marketing, distribution and service partner, Leaf Wireless, is claimed to be suitable for everyday personal use and for day-to-day business needs. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) has launched vBlade software, a software add-on to the Primergy BladeFrame system powered by Egenera. vBlade software is intended to introduce a way to manage both physical servers and virtual machines by providing a single environment for configuring, allocating, repurposing and managing both types of resources, and eliminating the complexities associated with virtual machine management. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
New version of McAfee Stinger available
McAfee has released the latest version of McAfee Stinger, which targets two Windows-based threats that are still being identified on video iPod and MP3 devices. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Spend management specialist, Fraxion, has announced the release of Version 3 of its software product, currently installed for over 15 000 users around the world, which aims to help organisations to control and reduce expenses. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
At the Supercomputing 2006 show in Tampa, Florida, AMD has introduced a dedicated stream processor designed to meet the specific hardware demands of high-performance computing (HPC) applications. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
BCS unveils business objectives and product offerings
Bytes Communications Systems (BCS), the business communications specialist, has introduced additions to its portfolio of service and product offerings, as well as extended functionality within its partner solutions. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Double for Spescom DataVoice screen recording
Spescom DataVoice has announced that screen recording has not only just become available as a component of its Libra recording solution, but is also now being offered as a stand-alone product. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Axiz splashes out with waterproof Flash drives
Axiz has launched the DataTraveler Secure from Kingston - a line of durable, waterproof USB 2.0 Flash drives featuring hardware-based encryption designed to safeguard critical data. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
International mobile systems and transacting solutions company, Fundamo, has announced the conclusion of a distribution agreement with Bahrain-based Total Transaction Mobility (TTM), [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
David Lees, director at End2End Business Solutions
Whilst large enterprises have detailed disaster recovery plans in place which often include pre-configured and mirrored backup file-servers, most SMEs cannot justify the investment required to implement disaster recovery plans of this nature, and must thus rely solely on the integrity and recoverability of their back-ups. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Strategic workforce planning key to improving IT effectiveness - Gartner EXP
CIOs are under increased pressure to improve IT organisation effectiveness and contribute to enterprise growth and competitiveness. To do so, it is crucial that companies implement a strategic workforce planning process to align IT resources (the people) to support the execution of business and IT strategies, according to Gartner Executive Programs (EXP), a unit of Gartner. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Delivering applications with confidence
Thomas Cronje, SA team leader for application quality, Compuware
Testing new applications early in the development cycle both improves the quality of the resulting applications and dramatically cuts the cost of fixing bugs. By implementing continuous integrated testing (CIT), organisations can move their applications into production on time and with far fewer defects. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Building and enabling an effective decision-making framework
Many factors affect performance but the most critical - and most fluid - is the decision making that happens at every level of an organisation. The role of CIOs, CFOs and line of business executives in driving effective decision making is critically important. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Corporate communication - why we cannot just 'send and receive' anymore
Robert Sussman, joint MD at Integr8 IT
It may be one of the more convenient and most accessible means of modern communication, but the reality of engaging in corporate e-mail communication is effective management and adherence to legislation. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
Look beyond power issue as pressure mounts for 'greener' IT - Gartner
Electrical power consumption has become a headline issue in the 'greener IT' debate, but this is just the tip of a melting iceberg for an IT industry that is currently unsustainable, according to Gartner. [Issue:Two hundred and twelve (13/11/06 - 17/11/06)]
